Rhetoric can be defined as the process of writing in which you get into a more in-depth and detailed thought or topic of your writing; one that makes the audience stop and think about what the author is truly trying to portray/ write about. Rhetoric is an intentional discourse in which it makes the audience interpret what you are trying to get across. Making the audience stop and think about the author’s writing is an aspect of rhetoric because writing in rhetoric isn’t your basic story telling writing. There is a purpose behind rhetoric writing and it is to make the reader feel engaged by making them think and ask questions about what is going on in the writing and or speech. There needs to be a concrete message and or purpose behind the author’s words that grabs the attention of the audience. Without the audience’s participation, the writing and or speech really has no purpose to be read or spoken. Rhetoric needs to be engaging and the only way to have that happen is to involve the audience and get them to stop and think for a second, what is really going on. The reason the author needs the interaction with the audience is to form that argumentative standpoint. Argument is synonymous with rhetoric, so without some sort of argument in the writing or speech or from the audience the writing loses its effect and is lack luster.
Example of a rhetoric picture.
